Slidable cover for ice-cream cabinets



ATTORNEYS L. G. GRAY SLIDABLE COVER FOR ICE CREAM CABINETS Filed May 25 April 8 1924.

Patented Apr. 8, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEONARD G. GRAY, OI DECATUR, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOB '10 WALRUS MANUFACTURING comm, OI DECATUR, ILLINOIS,-A. CORPORATION 01' ILLINOIS.

SLIDABLE COVER FOR ICE-CREAM CABINETS.

' Application fled It! #5, 1920. Serial I0. 884,228.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I LEONARD. GRAY, a

. citizen of the United tates, residm at Decatur, in the county of Macon a'nd tate of '6 Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Slidable Covers for Ice-Cream Cabinets, of which the followin is a specification.

If invention is designed for use 1n connection with those ice cream cabinets wh1ch are used with soda fountains. Devices of this kind with which I am familiar, are usually provided with lids which have to be lifted out of place and set down on the 16 work-board in order to permit the operator to obtain access to the ice cream receptacles. This is objectionable from a number of viewpoints. First, because it necessitates the operator remembering to put the 11d 20 back in place or else it ays on the work table. It is well known that devices of this character are obliged to meet a very heavy demand to be supplied in a comparatively short time.

Therefore, anythin that will operateto expedite the serving y the operator which will lessen his work and provide more convenient facilities for doing his work, is very desirable.

Other devices with which I am familiar are provided with hinged lids, which are very objectionable for the reason that by the continual rapid opening and closing by the operator of the hds, they become in a comparatively short time, broken off at the hin es..

y invention has for its object to provide a slidable lid which does not have to be removed at all in order to gain access to the ice cream receptacles, and which, when the latter is uncovered, not only does not clutter up the work table, but really affords a place upon which the glasses may be placed.

My means of accomplishing the foregoing objects may be more readily understood by having reference to the accompanying drawings which are hereby annexed and are a part of this specification in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective new of an ice cream cabinet equipped with my improvement.

top of the cabinet.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross-section of the of the cabinet is bro en away to show the location of one of these receptacles 4. My improved lid 5 as shown in the drawing, 05 comprises a plate, referably made of white glass, although it may be a combination of metal with a white celluloid top, or it may be of metal or any other suitable material, such as fibre, marble, wood, tile, etc. These lids 5 slide in rabbets or recesses 6 and 7 provided in cross members or ribsthe top 8 of the cabinet 1. The syrup jars 9 are made long and shallow as clearly seen in the drawings, in order that the lids may slide underneath the syrup jars 9, thus permitting the packing of the ice around the ice cream receptacles without difiiculty. Metalhandles 10 are suitably attached to the lids for moving them backward and forward. The recesses 6 and 7 are preferably rovided with straight sides so that the 1i 3 can be removed for cleanin The operation of my improvement is as ollows:

When the operator desires to secure access to the ice cream receptacle 4, by means of the lid 5, he pushes the lid 5 back until he can gain access to the interior of the receptacle 4.. There is then room to set the glasses on the lid 5 if desired. At the same time, if he has the ice cream disher in one hand and his glasses in the other, he can push the lid back with the glasses or the disher and continue the act of serving the ice cream, whereas with the old Way, he would have to set down the glasses, lift off the lid, take out the ice cream, set down the glasses again and replace it in position. It willbe apparent from the foregoing, that by use of my improvement, I am able 100 to eliminate a number of motions and thus greatly expedite the work of the dispenser. Practice has shown that a fountain thus equipped, will serve a considerable number of more persons per hour than can be done 106 with the old construction. Having described my invention, what I regard as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. In a soda fountain and ice cream cabino I net having a plurality of syrup jars above net, a plurality -oi syrup jars above and to the rear of the cabinet, a plurality of openings in said cabinet, a recess extending along each side of said openings, lids mounted in said openings which slide rearwardly beneath the syrup jars.

In testimony whereof I have signed the foregoing specification.

LEONARD G. GRAY. 

